Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 80W. Blackwood, 1856 - England |
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... strange that it does not warm him ! -is the fuel frozen - is the flame but a glit- ter ? He tells the friends of his dream how he had been lately al- most despairing of ever seeing them again - how he has suffered since they parted ...
... strange that it does not warm him ! -is the fuel frozen - is the flame but a glit- ter ? He tells the friends of his dream how he had been lately al- most despairing of ever seeing them again - how he has suffered since they parted ...
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... strange magic which made that faint ascending streak of smoke the ethereal plaything of these moonbeams - and the intense blackness of the shadow , deep as though it fell from one of the pyramids , of these homely garden- walls - made a ...
... strange magic which made that faint ascending streak of smoke the ethereal plaything of these moonbeams - and the intense blackness of the shadow , deep as though it fell from one of the pyramids , of these homely garden- walls - made a ...
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... strange to see how dull and disenchanted this place looked when the beautiful face that brightened it was gone . So Mr Foggo S. Endicott took from his pocket his own paper , the Mississippi Gazette , and Harry pos- sessed himself of the ...
... strange to see how dull and disenchanted this place looked when the beautiful face that brightened it was gone . So Mr Foggo S. Endicott took from his pocket his own paper , the Mississippi Gazette , and Harry pos- sessed himself of the ...
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... strange to see how dull and disenchanted this place looked when the beautiful face that brightened it was gone . So Mr Foggo S. Endicott took from his pocket his own paper , the Mississippi Gazette , and Harry pos- sessed himself of the ...
... strange to see how dull and disenchanted this place looked when the beautiful face that brightened it was gone . So Mr Foggo S. Endicott took from his pocket his own paper , the Mississippi Gazette , and Harry pos- sessed himself of the ...
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... Strange were the feelings which the sight roused within him ; not of wrath , for , as I have said , his indig nation had long burned itself out ; not of kindness , for he had a dim re- membrance of a wrong , and he felt as we feel in ...
... Strange were the feelings which the sight roused within him ; not of wrath , for , as I have said , his indig nation had long burned itself out ; not of kindness , for he had a dim re- membrance of a wrong , and he felt as we feel in ...
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Page 389 - Little remains : but every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself, And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
Page 305 - ... strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 41 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Page 376 - Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way, And merrily hent the stile-a : A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad tires in a mile-a.
Page 401 - IF thou wilt ease thine heart Of love and all its smart, Then sleep, dear, sleep ; And not a sorrow Hang any tear on your eyelashes ; Lie still and deep, Sad soul, until the sea-wave washes The rim o' the sun to-morrow In eastern sky.
Page 101 - States, such measures as they may deem expedient; and also, to take measures, if they shall think proper, for procuring a convention of delegates from all the United States, in order to revise the constitution thereof, and more effectually to secure the support and attachment of all the people, by placing all upon the 'basis of fair representation.
Page 389 - Much have I seen and known; cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments, Myself not least, but honor'd of them all; And drunk delight of battle with my peers, Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy. I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move.
Page 384 - I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, When the winds are breathing low, And the stars are shining bright; I arise from dreams of thee, And a spirit in my feet Has led me — who knows how?
Page 389 - Through scudding drifts the rainy Hyades Vext the dim sea: I am become a name; For always roaming with a hungry heart...
Page 304 - But that loveliness, ever in motion, which plays Like the light upon autumn's soft shadowy days, Now here and now there, giving warmth as it flies From the...